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newfie11

(8,159 posts)
1. He learned from the best, the white folks around him
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 10:09 AM
Jun 2014

There is prejudiced everywhere. The Spanish in some South American countries look down on the Indians ( natives that were there before the Spanish).
It's a sucky world!

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CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
2. I am going to have to guess you do not know many "mexicans."
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 10:11 AM
Jun 2014

Some of them are capable of a racism by skin color to a degree that leaves american white folks in the dust.

One time I was in a grocery store with a Hispanic clerk. I was really impressed that he spoke Spanish to a customer in front of me. I thought it was really great that they had a bilingual cashier.But then an elderly Vietnamese man with poor english skills came up and asked him a question. After he sent the man away the cashier looked at us and said, "ching chong ching chong." while screwing up his face for the ole slanty eye effect just like a fucking real american.

To assume that so-called minorities all get along and are not capable of racism is silly.

Baitball Blogger

(46,682 posts)
3. Prejudices come along from all quarters.
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 10:24 AM
Jun 2014

Yes, there are prejudices held between some Hispanics and Blacks. And the sooner that's understood, the sooner people won't make sweeping conclusions that it will be easy to organize minorities based on one common issue.

The Republicans have just made it easy to galvanize minorities because they hate everyone who isn't part of their insular societies. At the beginning of the Republican's money run, that wasn't so apparent. They still hadn't started their anti-immigrant campaign, so among their supporters were many Latinos.

riqster

(13,986 posts)
4. Every group can be prejudiced against any other group.
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 10:35 AM
Jun 2014

When I worked in Mexico, we had to hustle a black co-worker out of the country after he bought a drink for a local girl, to save his horndog life. The men in town were outraged at his behavior.

Quite a few hated my white skin, too.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
5. Wow- are you trying to make a point about bigotry?
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 10:37 AM
Jun 2014

I guess you couldn't find a story about a Mexican being bigoted to white people so you found what you imagined was the next best thing? Embarrassing.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
9. I know bigotry exists all over - and that it has little to do with institutionalized racism....
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 11:44 AM
Jun 2014

And I'm hazarding a guess that the OP has confused the two.
Anyone who has spent any time with a lot of North and South American Latinos knows that SOME still try to enforce a social hierarchy based on skin color- with the Argentines who have lighter skin in top, Dominicans with the darkest skin on the bottom. I dealt with the open bigotry at work, and put everyone on notice I would not tolerate it at all.

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
6. When I played football during my teen years...
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 11:31 AM
Jun 2014

I played on a team that was roughly 3/4 white and 1/4 Latino (this was in the L.A. area of Southern California). Of course there was a "rivalry" between the whites and Latinos, usually manifesting in slurs and ethnic stereotyping.

Once a year we'd go up against a team from Willowbrook. Some of our coaches were racists and would throw out epithets like confetti at a parade. We heard every epithet from "A" to "Z" with heavy emphasis on those from the "C", "J", and "N" lists.

And we weren't playing Willowbrook; we were playing "Watts" (the two communities are situated next to each other). These match-ups were in the wake of the 1965 Watts' riots, and we were going to "seek revenge" and "right some wrongs." Often I heard a teammate said, "We're going to kick ass in Watts!" I remember once replying with "But we're playing Willowbrook." "Same thing!" came the response. [font size="1"]Okay...whatever...[font size="2"]

Anyway, in the practices leading up to the "Big Game," the Latinos and whites were united as one with both groups equally racist with comments and quips denigrating the blacks. But once the Big Game with "Watts" was over, it was back to "business as usual."

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